Overview
This text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. It considers a variety of media, including theatre, film, dance, advertising, and television, and offers critical foundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, and analyses.
Full Product Details
Author: Valerie Lipscomb ,
L. Marshall
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.470kg
ISBN: 9780230623651
ISBN 10: 0230623654
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 18 August 2010
Audience:
Adult education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A groundbreaking and timely collection of essays that demonstrates the value of bringing age studies and performance studies into greater dialogue . . . [The essays] are accessible, enlightening, and applicable to a wide audience of practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines . . . Staging Age offers an important and valuable contribution to studies of aging and performance, as it amplifies the range of critical issues addressed by the field, demonstrating the many ways of understanding age in performance. - Theatre Journal Readers of Staging Age will find the work both accessible and enlightening. Valerie Lipscomb and Leni Marshall have done a remarkable job putting together this collection of articles. Film and theatre lovers will enjoy the lively essays on those subjects. Dance enthusiasts will particularly rejoice to find three superb articles about an art form that one ordinarily would not associate with the toils of aging. In sum, Staging Age should attract a wide audience and alert newcomers to the pleasures of Age Studies. - Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, Co-Editor of the Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, Associate Professor Emeritus, Program in Linguistics, the University of Florida, Gainesville Staging Age is an imaginative collection of essays that brings together performance and age studies to generate new spaces of thought about the enactment of aging today. Readers can expect an exhilarating journey from classic theatrical texts to Hollywood and the media to the worlds of dance and dancers, while joining the book's leading editors and authors in their critical quest to understand the challenges of representing experience, identity, and meaning in the time of the body. - Stephen Katz, Professor of Sociology, Trent University Age Studies here moves briskly into the entertainment biz.Smart critics, steeped in the fascinations of performance, some of them practitioners, write against the grain of the c
Readers of Staging Age will find the work both accessible and enlightening. Valerie Lipscomb and Leni Marshall have done a remarkable job putting together this collection of articles. Film and theatre lovers will enjoy the lively essays on those subjects. Dance enthusiasts will particularly rejoice to find three superb articles about an art form that one ordinarily would not associate with the toils of aging. In sum, Staging Age should attract a wide audience and alert newcomers to the pleasures of Age Studies. --Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, Co-Editor of the Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts<br> Associate Professor Emeritus, Program in Linguistics, the University of Florida, Gainesville Staging Age is an imaginative collection of essays that brings together performance and age studies to generate new spaces of thought about the enactment of aging today. Readers can expect an exhilarating journey from classic theatrical texts to Hollywood and the media to the worlds of dance a
Author Information
Author Valerie Barnes Lipscomb: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA.
